"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."

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"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."

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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

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"The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

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"I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it."

Richard Gere, American Actor

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"It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera."

Fred Savage, American Actor

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"I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor."

Charles Dance, English Actor

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"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."

James Earl Jones, American Actor

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"That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth."

Gavin MacLeod, American Actor

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"Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors."

Dwayne Johnson, American Actor

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"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."

Thornton Wilder, American Novelist

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"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."

Thornton Wilder, American Novelist

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"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"

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"There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer."

Time

"I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly."

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"I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities."

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"I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London."

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"I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough."

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"It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me."

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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."

"The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor."

"I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it."

"It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera."

"I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor."

"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."

"That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth."

"Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors."

"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."

"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."

Explore more quotes by Leslie Caron

"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"

"There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer."

"I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly."

"I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities."

"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."

"I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids."

"The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost."

"I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London."

"I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough."

"It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me."